Privateers and the AI

[gps]

I think he is saying he corrected the problem for this patch, so before 3.19 = no privateers, after it = possible privateers.

Well, there's a subtle difference between the official BTS 3.19 patch and the unofficial patch for BTS 3.19. So - with all the information I found here in the forums - no privateers in official BTS 3.19, privateers fixed in unofficial patch for BTS 3.19 and any mod that includes the unofficial patch. It's not that hard, is it?

 

[Seraiel]

Now tell me, does BUFFY include unoffical patches? I don't think so. Does BUG? Don't think so either. They say it's unaltered gameplay.

 

[gps]

I haven't uses anything BUG, BUFFY or BAT yet - because I am a bit confused about what does what exactly and what I need and where to start - so I am no expert her, if you want a proper answer you have to ask the devs. But this is what I found in the BUG FAQ forum:

Does BUG include any of the unofficial patches?

It contains the Python fixes, and you can use the UP DLL with BUG. When I release the BUG DLL, I will have a version with the UP in it.

EmperorFool also was a major contributor of ideas and input to the fixes in the unofficial patch and the posts are from 2009, so it would not be completely out of the picture to have some content of the UP in current versions of BUG...

P.S.: Directly form the BUFFY thread: "It also contains most of the latest Unofficial Patch changes."

 

[s.bernbaum]

I think that the unofficial 3.19 patch came first and was the basis for the official patch. Whether or not that is correct, I have the official not the unofficial 3.19 patch and, as I have said above, I see AI privateers in my games. Not all the time but often enough.

 

[gps]

I think that the unofficial 3.19 patch came first ...

No, it didn't. There was an unofficial patch for BTS 3.17 by Solver which was mostly taken over for the official BTS 3.19 patch. After that there is an unofficial patch for BTS 3.19 done by jdog5000 which was updated until about 2010 and thus came clearly after official BTS 3.19. This is the one that includes the privateer fix. You can read about all the unofficial patches including changelogs and all details what was corrected in each of them to an excess in the "Civ 4 - Unofficial Patches" subforum.

I play BTS 3.19 with no mods except BUG mod, which is not supposed to change anything in the play of the game.

So you're not playing standard BTS 3.19. In standard BTS there should be no privateers. I've never seen any in a standard unmodded game.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

But I'm playing standrd 3.19 as I said, and I've seen two in my last game. It's a rare ocurence though.